Frank E. Morriss (September 10, 1927 – July 3, 2013) was a film and television editor with more than 50 film and television program credits dating from 1968. He had a notable collaboration with the director John Badham extending from 1974 to 2004. Morriss' editing of
Charley Varrick (1973) was nominated for the BAFTA Award. He was honored at the 1974 Primetime Emmy Awards as "film editor of the year" for the television film
The Execution of Private Slovik. Morriss was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing: for
Blue Thunder (1983, with Edward M. Abroms) and for
Romancing the Stone (1984, with Donn Cambern). Morriss was a 1946 graduate of Beverly Hills High School, where he was a varsity letterman in three sports. In 1948, Morriss enrolled at Santa Monica College.
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